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Patented October 13, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ANDRE W JOHN FREDRIKSON, OF SMALANDS, TABERG, SWEDEN, ASSIGNOR TO LONDON WAX VESTA COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

WAX MATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,025, dated. October 13, 1903. Application filed February 11, 1901. Serial No. 46,917. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ANDREW JOHN FREDRIK- SON, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, residing at Smalands, Taberg, Sweden, haveinventedcertain newand usefullmprovements in or Connected with wax Matches, (for which I have made application forpatent in Great Britain on the 26th day of October, 1900, No. 19,216,) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The improved wax match consists in making the tapers that are to form the wax matches of thin layers or veneers of wood or the like combustible material, formed into a bundle and coated with wax. By using layers or veneers of wood or the like the tapers can be manufactured continuously, as the veneers can be laid and jointed to form continuous lengths.

Asa further improvement the veneers may be compressed before being laid together. By this compression sufficient material is provided to insure efficient slow burning without increasing the bulk, and the amount of wax required to coat the same is considerably reduced, thus reducing the cost and the liability of the melted wax to run.

Before coating the cable or bundle of wooden strips with wax I usually bind the strips together by means of one or more yarns or threads of cotton or such like, such yarns or threads being preferably wound spirally around the cable or bundle, so as to hold the Sometimes one or more like are placed on the outside of the wooden cable or bundle either inside or outside the spiral cotton or cottons.

For saving time and rendering the making more easy very long strips of wood or the like, continuous or jointed, wound onto bobbins are drawn through independent guides and then through a common guide which brings them together before being Waxed. The bundles are wound spirally with cotton after being brought together and before being waxed. If cottons are inserted parallel to the strips, the straight cottons are led into the common guide,together with the wooden strips, so that they will be bound by the spiral cotton or cottons. The cable thus formed is then waxed. The resulting wax-coated cord is then cut transversely into short pieces, the one end of which is dipped in composition in the usual manner. 7 p

In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are magnified views of tapersconstructed according to this invention. Fig. 3is a diagrammatic view illustrating the method of forming the tapers.

The taper consists of thin layers a of wood, the parallel cottons b, the spiral winding 0', and the wax d. In Fig. 2 the cottons b, similar to the cottons b, are placed outside the spiral winding to facilitate stripping the ta- ,per, so as to readily ignite in a wind. The

wooden veneers are placed on rolls 6 and pass through a guide f, a forming apparatus g, a winding apparatus 71, where the spiral winding 0 is put on, and awaxing apparatus ionto a receiving-drum 2.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A taper for combustible purposes consisting of two or more thin veneers of combustible material, and a wax coating.

2. A paper for combustible purposes consisting of thin veneers of compressed combustible material and a wax coating.

3. A taper for combustible purposes consisting of thin veneers of combustible material, a spiral binding and a wax coating.

4.. A taper for combustible purposes con sisting of thin veneers of compressed combustible material, a spiral binding, and a wax coating.

5. A taper for combustible purposes consisting of thin veneers of combustible matetogether by a spiral winding, waxing the rial, longitudinal fibers, aspiral binding, and bound veneers, and dividing the Waxed buna Wax coating. dle into the desired lengths.

6. A taper for combustible purposes con- In testimony whereof I have affixed my sigsisting of thin veneers of compressed comnature in presence of two Witnesses. bustible material,longitndinal fibers, a spiral binding, and a Wax coating- Al\DREW JOHN I REDRIKSON.

7. The process for making tapers consist- WVitnesses: ing in superlaying thin veneers of combusti- EVA LARSON,

zo ble material, binding the superlaid veneers C. A. PETTERSSON. 

